I’M LEARNING new tech and it’s hard. Maybe you’re in the same boat. Through the rosy lens of memory, learning HTML and Photoshop back in the day was a breeze. It wasn’t, really. And CSS, when it came along in 1996, was even tougher to grasp—in part because it was mostly theoretical, due to poor …
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I’ve recently seen some tweets expressing the pressure some people feel — understandably — of publishing their thoughts on a blog, fearing what others might say, wondering if it’s good …
Another absolutely brilliant IndieWebCamp, this time in Utrecht. By now I feel like a bit of an old hand, and it was nice to see old friends and make new ones. The first day, as usual, was devoted to group-organised sessions on different topics.
I was particularly taken with Julia Jannson’s presenta…
If the indieweb sites were not syndicating to Twitter, would it be possible to collect the posts based on hashtags with – for example – Google?
I joined the IndieWeb!
What does that mean? For the long version, I recommend reading An Introduction to the IndieWeb. Here is a super short version:
1) This web domain now is my main online identity, and I can use my domain as a way of authentication with a) “rel=me” links b) and my domain name…
Jonathan LaCour (cleverdevil.io)Fantastic talk by Tantek Çelik about owning your identity on the web, and fighting back against the centralization of identity into harmful social networks like Facebook. Includes an inspiring introduction that sets context, and then an overview of the #IndieWeb and related technologies like micro…
Charlie Owen (sonniesedge.net)I build websites and try to make the web a better place.
Here’s what I stand for: Putting people before code. Replacing Capitalism with something kinder. Choosing simple solutions before technological masturbation. Building robust sites before jumping at fragile frameworks. Using tech for the greate…
Give podcasting full respect by making it a search heading. Bing should do it too. Also DuckDuckGo. In fact all search engines should make podcasts a search heading. Simple as that. If they make po…
It’s time we dethrone Mark Zuckerberg and prove that Silicon Valley kings are not gods
Over a year ago, I was working on Indigenous, the first app I’ve released in the App Store. It was a great experience but it originally started as a native share sheet extension. From there, more Micropub features were added and then as Microsub was announced, that was built in as well. Ultimately i…
De indieweb leesmap mogelijkheden komen steeds dichterbij
Ton’s antwoord op mijn blogpost van gisteren heeft me vandaag weer op een nieuw pad gebracht. De abonnement-server die ik gisteren noemde, Aperture, bewaart alle abonnementen voor me. Nu vind ik dat niet zo’n enorm probleem. Ik ken Aaron, zijn werk en in principe is er niets vreemds aan het opslaan van je abonnementen bij…
A regular week where I Did a session for an (open) data experiment around targeting micro subsidies for energy transition for the relatively energy poor (households that will never have the means to adapt their houses, although they own their homes.) Collated notes of last weeks stakeholder mapping …
RSS fostered countless communities and friendships across oceans, across networks. And because of that I now think of RSS as a window into a room with the smartest, kindest people — and sometimes, on the rarest of occasions, they would open up the window and wave back.
